RE: Hunting

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 11:41:26 MDT

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    Greg Jordan wrote:

    > On Mon, 5 May 2003, gts wrote:
    >
    >> The prey is going to suffer whether you are hunting for your
    >> own desperate survival, or purely for the sport of killing things.
    >> So then I think you'll have to agree that the suffering of animals
    >> is not what makes sport-hunting evil, if indeed sport-hunting is evil.
    >
    > The prey is not going to suffer from human hunting (pain,
    > fear, loss of life, social disruption, etc.) if humans do not
    > hunt.

    Are you saying then that hunting for survival needs is also evil?

    I'm trying to isolate the source of evil.

    I thought it was your position that sport-hunting is evil because, unlike
    carnivores in nature, humans do not need meat to survive. If that is your
    position then it would imply that hunting is not evil to you when a lost
    human has no choice but to hunt in order to survive.

    The hunting behavior and the suffering of the animal will be the same
    regardless of the hunter's motivation. So then if sport-hunting is evil but
    survival-hunting is not, then the evil must not emanate from the act of
    hunting or from the suffering of the animal. The evil must instead emanate
    from the brain activity of the sport-hunter.

    -gts



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